Shirley Parsons
Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor
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We’re excited to continue our partnership with a leading Tier 1 contractor specialising in the development, construction, maintenance, and operation of complex national infrastructure, and we’re looking for a passionate Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor to join their growing team.
This is an opportunity to influence environmental performance across three major power transmission projects, with a key focus on an ambitious overhead cable upgrade scheme.
You’ll act as a trusted environmental specialist across multi-disciplinary project teams, championing best practice, ensuring compliance, and driving innovation. From shaping sustainability strategy to supporting site teams on the ground, you’ll play a pivotal part in delivering environmentally responsible outcomes on high-profile power transmission and distribution works.
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What You’ll Be Doing:
- Leading environmental compliance across a portfolio of major projects, ensuring legal, regulatory, and company standards are consistently met.
- Overseeing environmental documentation, permitting and licensing activities for complex infrastructure works.
- Providing hands-on site support through regular inspections, stakeholder engagement and visible presence across projects.
- Promoting sustainability opportunities, identifying risks and innovative solutions that enhance environmental performance.
- Advising project teams and supply chain partners, ensuring environmental KPIs and expectations are clearly communicated and delivered.
- Supporting work-winning activities, offering environmental input into planning, permitting and bid processes.
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Who They’re Looking For:
- A construction-savvy environmental specialist, with well-developed knowledge of environmental law, mitigation, licensing and statutory requirements.
- A confident communicator, able to influence stakeholders, regulators, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- A detail-driven organiser, capable of managing data, records, and reporting across multiple sites.
- A supportive leader, experienced in guiding junior or graduate environmental staff.
- A flexible professional, comfortable travelling across Scotland to visit worksites and project offices.
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